First impressions?

[Briggerz]

OMFG, thats mine.

Beta 2 is unbelievable, i was totaly shocked.

took a while to get used to the new recoil system, but oh god.
its harder to play but when you get the hang of it its the dogs testiculars.

i just played the map dod_schwetz, and i played probably the best game on a public server since i started playing dod.

the teamplay was just excellent, attacking as allies while the axis defended was just brilliant.
everyone talking, letting everyone know where they were etc, all covering each others backs.

it was like playing band of brothers.

i cant think of anymore, my heads in a spin.


oh yeah, 1 bad thing so far, my ping isnt too good.

played on wp and jolt so far and wp ping was worse, jolt i was getting about 150+ when usually i get below 100.

hopefully its net congestion :)

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

First impression isssss....what a very large download.

As for your ping, its probably being shagged by people downloading Dod 2.

Only 3 hours to go, ho humm.

I wish Telewest would get their finger out and put cable in Town

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

Well, I have got to say I am severely disappointed.

It is horribly laggy, very difficult to tell which side is which.

Something is definately very wrong also, went machine gunner and put quite a few rounds in the enemy from prone close up and square in both sights, only for him to shoot me almost a second later.

Went sniper and shot enemy twice in the head, still no kill, so either they have already found a cheat, or the Dod 2 is pants. I shall point out that my ping was 70, and theirs 40 ish three on my side and three on theirs, so it was not lag and the sniper shots were in clear view, the target was prone.

It has some good features, but I am less than impressed. My gut feeling is that they have taken a good game, tried to make it more realistic and basically bolloxed it up.

Time will tell, no doubt it needs some tweaking, but if it stays like that, I see little point in continuing to play.

[Bloke]

eep-im gettin it tonight so i shall see then, remeber when flf was updated to be more realistic?...they fluffed that up and i lost interest so heres hoping dod is good..when you say lag is it gfx lag you speak of..cos my pc is pants hehe.

[Briggerz]

fluffy what gfx card you got?
lots of people are having problems who have voodoo cards.

[NumbNutz]

First impressions ?

Not good. :(

If I wanted to play a jerky version of Counter Strike I'd ditch my 512k cable connection for a 56k modem and revert from a 1.4ghz, 640mb RAM, 120gb of RAID-0 HDD's with a cooking GeForce2 card for a Tiny/Time pice of crap.

My ping is abysmal on all of the servers I've tried. Usually on HL / TFC / DoD 1.3b I ping in the 30-70 range. 200+ is not uncommon with DoD V2.0. Even when the ping is lower, I can empty a clip into someone and they just keep on comming at me. The models all run around bent over as if their piles are about to erupt, they just don't move naturally (the player models, not their piles!). You duck down behind an object like a tank and 2 seconds later get shot by somone that no way could have seen you.

The recoil might be realistic but it's taken some fun out of the game - you aim at the floor and end up spraying the sky FFS. Sniping ? OK, maybe it was too easy on 1.3b but now it's ridiculous - not even my Granny would shake that much holding a rifle. You are now lucky if your crosshairs stay within a 20 metre circle.

I thik they've tweaked a bit too much. DoD has recently won a "Mod of the Year" award and not without good reason. People enjoyed the gameplay, graphics and most of all the fun of the game. With this in mind, some tweaks would've been nice but this feels like a step backward in the fun stakes.

I'll say it again.

I do NOT want to play Counter Strike - I want the fun of DoD.

[(Inc)PHOENIX]

aim = sucks
crosshair = weird
graphics = great (realistic)
weapons = awesome

now teamplay is more important
but it's more difficult than ever
omg that aim...

[Briggerz]

the aim only sucks cos your not used to it, its more realistic ffs.

just because a game is hard/er doesnt make it sh1t.

NN im using a celeron 400mhz 192mb ram Voodoo3 2000 PCI with isdn, and im not having the problems youve got.

yes ive found a few servers laggy but that is down to the servers.

i tried to play on by and it was totally unplayable, jolt was ok but ping just over 120ish.

however ive just been playing for nearly an hour on the belgium shrimpwarz server and it was excellent, i was constantly pinging under 100(around 80ish) and no sign of lag at all.

ive been pinging the jolt and wp servers in GS at about 150, yet when pinging the kustom kettle server which is in philly/USA i was getting 220ish i fink the most problem is net congestion, all the uk servers on my list were full, that hasnt happened since about beta 1.2.

give it a few days when the novalty wears off and the deathmatchers leave itll probably calm down.

even now at just gone 10pm the wp server is now pinging 90/100 in gamespy.

so before you go blaming the game maybe you should look at the servers or even your own connection.


(bloody swear filter kept changing my words, so i had to write think as fink)

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

I am using a 900 amd with geforce 2, on isdn. Ping is about 120 but spikes up to 1600+ for everyone on the server at the same time

I concur that the lag is being caused by major net traffic due mainly to Dod 2's release, and does not help, but realism does not necessarily make for a good game. Dod 1, was to my mind the bee's bollox when it came out.

But this???

I play for fun, and this does not equate to fun.??

The death bell tolls, and it has DOD2 written on it.

Very veryvery pizzed off

[Briggerz]

well go and play rtcw, youll soon realise nothing compares to dod for WWII action.
if you want DM then go play Q3, its as simple as that really.
if you want a realistic WWII teamwork orientated mod then dods the one.

as our graham says "the choice is yours"

[Steffan]

ahahaha @ all the people whinging about Beta 2

i like it, its good, you cant run around like an idiot shooting and get millions of kills, it takes a bit of skill, and teamwork, very good imho

[Steffan]

im waiting for the BETA 1.3 reform project thats bound to be next :P

[(Inc)PHOENIX]

Originally posted by Briggerz
well go and play rtcw, youll soon realise nothing compares to dod for WWII action.
if you want DM then go play Q3, its as simple as that really.
if you want a realistic WWII teamwork orientated mod then dods the one.

as our graham says "the choice is yours"


MOH owns dod in every point

[Razz]

I'm still not sure about it. Was playing around earlier on Caen2 and it was surprisingly good fun. I don't particulary the strength of the recoil but I love the new textures..